🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <3023@naucse.cse.nau.edu> rrw@naucse.cse.nau.edu (Robert Wier) writes:

> From article <4758@tellab5.tellabs.com>, by verive@tellabs.com (Jeff Verive):
>> There are a lot of ways to do this.  If you really want to, you could
>> set up a state machine with flip-flop's and assorted gates, but this
>> is fairly complicated for the uninitiated.  You might try counting 
>> through some ROM, like you would do for an arbitrary wave generator, 
>> but the simplest thing to do is to use any cheap oscillator (like the
>> 555) and feed its output to the clock input of a CMOS 4017 decade 
>> counter.  Works great (less filling, too!)  :-)
>> 
>> Jeff
> Or you could use extreme overkill, like we just did in our
> microprocessors course, and use an 8085 to do it!  :-)
> (this was a lab assignment)...
> - Bob Wier

Our micro class did that also.  Then in out mini-computer class, I
seem to remember a lab assignment involving programming a PDP-11
to do this.  :-)

Jim